Gentle Mother Item Info
- Title:
- Gentle Mother
- Sound Cloud:
- Description:
- During those trips Mulhaire's Céilí Band made to Lixnaw and other towns in County Kerry in the 1960s (see 'Tart ar an Ól'), ballad singer Josephine McNamara was another artist who made the long journey – in her case from County Leitrim – to perform in Diarmuid Ó Cathain's concert series. She was always a special favourite at these events. Coming as she does from the musical McNamara family it is no surprise that she was All-Ireland champion singer for a number of consecutive years. Josephine left Ireland in the 1960s, and I was delighted to meet her in New Haven, Connecticut, thirty years later. She sang this song for me for this collection, a song we both first heard many years ago on an old 78 RPM record.
- Publisher:
- Séamus Connolly, Boston College Libraries
- Creator:
- McNamara, Josephine
- Type:
- Some transcriptions are based on historical source recordings. More info.
- Subjects:
- Folk music Folk songs, English
- Playlist:
- Playlist 02
- Collection:
- Songs and Mouth music
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- McNamara, Josephine, "Gentle Mother", The Séamus Connolly Collection of Irish Music, accessed July 10, 2025, https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/704.html.
- Reference Link:
- https://library.bc.edu/ds/connolly/document/704.html
Rights
- Rights:
- This website was created through a partnership with Séamus Connolly and the Boston College Libraries (2016). All materials on this site may be freely shared and adapted according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.